ENGLISH 12A - UNIT EXAM FIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
If a law is intended to establish an equitable system for taxing citizens, what is it likely to do? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅The law is likely to ensure that everyone pays a fair share of tax.
You look up the word anarchy in the dictionary so you can make sure to correctly explain its meaning to
your sister.
Which definitions are you most likely to give her as you explain this word?
Select all that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A place with no laws is experiencing anarchy.
A society without a government is in anarchy.
Read the sentence.
Players can be disqualified for arguing with the officials, neglecting to obey the rules, or if they act in an
unsportsmanlike manner.
Which option best revises the sentence? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Players can be disqualified for arguing
with the officials, neglecting to obey the rules, or acting in an unsportsmanlike manner.
Read the sentence.
Soon everyone knew that Laney would be traveling to Paris for the international art competition and
had won the art contest.
Which is the best way to revise the sentence? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Soon everyone knew that Laney
had won the art contest and would be traveling to Paris for the international art competition.
Read the sentence.
, The Canary Islands are a popular vacation spot for people from Finland, a chain of seven islands off the
coast of Africa.
What is the best way to rewrite the sentence? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Canary Islands, a chain of
seven islands off the coast of Africa, are a popular vacation spot for people from Finland.
Which sentence correctly omits hyphens in a phrase? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The equipment that the
IT department ordered was state of the art.
Read the excerpt from the article "Gun Debate? What Gun Debate?
"I'm confident that in the next few weeks there will be another school shooting. I'm confident because
there have been 74 shootings on or around schools or colleges in the year and a half since the Sandy
Hook massacre. That's averaging one a week.
Which option most accurately explains why the author uses a specific claim to convey the argument that
gun violence is widespread in America? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Making a deliberately shocking claim
that a school shooting will occur soon is a tactic used to shake the audience out of complacency about
the issue.
Read the excerpt from Shirley Chisholm's speech "Equal Rights for Women.
"Let me note and try to refute two of the commonest arguments that are offered against this
amendment...
An argument that Chisholm establishes is that legal workplace protections for women have not created
substantial change in women's daily realities.
Which option best evaluates how effectively Chisholm uses an anticipated counterclaim to support her
argument? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Chisholm predicts her opposition's argument that women already
have legal protections, which successfully helps Chisholm discredit her opposition's claims by countering
them in advance.
If a law is intended to establish an equitable system for taxing citizens, what is it likely to do? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅The law is likely to ensure that everyone pays a fair share of tax.
You look up the word anarchy in the dictionary so you can make sure to correctly explain its meaning to
your sister.
Which definitions are you most likely to give her as you explain this word?
Select all that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A place with no laws is experiencing anarchy.
A society without a government is in anarchy.
Read the sentence.
Players can be disqualified for arguing with the officials, neglecting to obey the rules, or if they act in an
unsportsmanlike manner.
Which option best revises the sentence? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Players can be disqualified for arguing
with the officials, neglecting to obey the rules, or acting in an unsportsmanlike manner.
Read the sentence.
Soon everyone knew that Laney would be traveling to Paris for the international art competition and
had won the art contest.
Which is the best way to revise the sentence? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Soon everyone knew that Laney
had won the art contest and would be traveling to Paris for the international art competition.
Read the sentence.
, The Canary Islands are a popular vacation spot for people from Finland, a chain of seven islands off the
coast of Africa.
What is the best way to rewrite the sentence? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Canary Islands, a chain of
seven islands off the coast of Africa, are a popular vacation spot for people from Finland.
Which sentence correctly omits hyphens in a phrase? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The equipment that the
IT department ordered was state of the art.
Read the excerpt from the article "Gun Debate? What Gun Debate?
"I'm confident that in the next few weeks there will be another school shooting. I'm confident because
there have been 74 shootings on or around schools or colleges in the year and a half since the Sandy
Hook massacre. That's averaging one a week.
Which option most accurately explains why the author uses a specific claim to convey the argument that
gun violence is widespread in America? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Making a deliberately shocking claim
that a school shooting will occur soon is a tactic used to shake the audience out of complacency about
the issue.
Read the excerpt from Shirley Chisholm's speech "Equal Rights for Women.
"Let me note and try to refute two of the commonest arguments that are offered against this
amendment...
An argument that Chisholm establishes is that legal workplace protections for women have not created
substantial change in women's daily realities.
Which option best evaluates how effectively Chisholm uses an anticipated counterclaim to support her
argument? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Chisholm predicts her opposition's argument that women already
have legal protections, which successfully helps Chisholm discredit her opposition's claims by countering
them in advance.
